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HELP: no USB, no CDROM, just floppy booting..

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And Wan
2010-03-12
2013-04-05
  • And Wan

    And Wan - 2010-03-12

    Just wondering how one can run this program on a laptop with no USB nor CD-ROM drive but do have floppy disk drive booting.

     
  • nai7

    nai7 - 2010-03-12

    andwan0,

      Thanks for giving this a try with Clonezilla! It may be easier to take drive out of the machine (A) and hook it up to another CD boot-able machine (B0 as a USB drive. Just remember not to use A's OS drive as a regular USB drive, I've seen that cause problems. If you do go that way backing up important files first is likely a very good idea, if it's possible!?

    Out of curiosity, what kind of machine is it? Others may have experience with your situation.

    Alternately, what about network connectivity/capabilities, could you do a net boot?

    Keep us posted, thanks!

    Alan

     
  • And Wan

    And Wan - 2010-03-13

    Yes, I was hoping for a pre-built Clonezilla on a floppy solution … in the past there must've been floppy sized imaging programs!

     
  • And Wan

    And Wan - 2010-03-13

    This is a 1996-1998 laptop. The bios doesn't support PXE booting… It's a Toshiba Libretto 100CT… overclocked to 266MHz … Pentium 1, 64 or 96MB RAM (can't remember)… with 4 or 6 or 8 GB HD…

     

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